To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grafting Black Walnuts
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 08:50:54 -0500
Had a chance to get out in the nursery beds for a few minutes
yesterday morning.
I grafted some walnuts with a visiting veterinary student on
Thursday; the ones that were done as a 3-flap graft are bleeding like
crazy, despite a couple of 'girdling' cuts below the graft - I
suspect that NONE of these will take, based on previous experience.
Guess I should have followed Richard O'Barr's recommendation to cut
these rootstocks off and wait until they stopped bleeding to graft -
but lack of patience reared its ugly head again, and it looks like
it'll cost me. Again.
None of the 'sap-stopper' bark grafts are bleeding excessively.